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Joy Faith Wellness

Somatic Therapist and Embodiment Coaching
For sensitive adults tired of self-abandonment
Stay with yourself ↓

03/29/2026

I love being in my body. For a lot of people, that’s not their experience.

This is what they come to me to learn.

In a world shaped by trauma, pressure, and disconnection, the obvious solution can feel like leaving the body—excommunicating ourselves from it.

But it was never meant to be that way.

There’s a deep sense of personal freedom and peace that comes from being able to source what we need from right within ourselves.

If you want to stop pushing yourself to perform your identity, judging your thoughts and feelings, or wishing you could crawl out of your skin and run away from yourself, you can reach out.

If you can understand your issues but still feel stuck, and you’re ready to go deeper and make lasting transformation, reach out when you’re ready.

New groups and retreats forming for summer and fall, plus a few individual spots opening soon.

03/17/2026

And the light returns
And I remember
I’m alive
Even under blankets of snow and black ink nights and sharp frozen things
Even then- there’s power
and potential
Like the human spirit
Buried under oppression and confusion
Personal and collective magic lost
In the fog and the illusion
Of normalcy or rules or fear
Remembered - as just enough light returns
As if waking from heavy slumber
Sobering up
I was always strong- I was always resilient
It’s my human nature
Welcome back light
Within and without

03/08/2026

Our sweet new space for the winter Authentic Movement group series at Flow on Main.

This practice is a space just to be yourself, to come home to yourself in the present moment. And it feels amazing to let your body move and your breath flow.

Different from yoga or expressive dance, you move based only on your intuition-eyes closed and no music. And after, as you speak your experience with intention and discernment, you hear the voice of your deepest truth.

This group series is wrapping up in April. More online and in-person group series coming this fall. Reach out now if you’d like to work together individually.

02/14/2026

Writing my PhD dissertation.

My research is on attachment, looking at how practicing the Discipline of Authentic Movement impacts relationships.

I think I’m almost done. 😰 🤞 🤔

02/04/2026

Tiny apothecary now open!

12/17/2025

Prompt: explore boundaries with movement.

I love what I learned from doing this prompt. I start out hesitant and really focused outside myself. With a keen eye, you can see that my body doesn’t have as much weight or groundedness in the beginning.

Once my playfulness emerges(you can see a moment of delight and aliveness on my face), my movement becomes much more fluid and expressive and there’s weight in my body. I’m grounded in myself.

After that, I have more balance between myself and the outside world.

My experience with this prompt is letting me know that taking my time to explore the unknown and making space for my playful nature -when I’m ready- will support me in having boundaries that feel balanced, where I can be present with myself and the world around me.

This is an example of a prompt I might use with clients in therapy. You can try it at home. If you’re looking for more opportunities to get know and support yourself through your body, please reach out. 🩷

12/07/2025

An opportunity to slow down. 🕯️

This is for you if you want…

- more permission
- increased self-trust
- deeper sense of belonging
- clearer insight into unconscious patterns
- greater ease and freedom in your body
- more peace

No experience needed. This is a movement mindfulness practice. It’s contemplative and also mystical. It’s relational and developmental. It’s awesome.

If you’ve never moved outside of exercise and daily functionality before, this could be a wonderful entry! I specialize in working with beginners. If you have a deep and long body-based practice – you’re welcome here, too.

This practice offers so many benefits, I find myself getting lost trying to list them. Recently, practitioners have said things like this…

- I didn’t know I needed this.
- My mind was quiet for the first time in a long time.
- This restored my hope in humanity.

It doesn’t have to be that deep, even though it is. On a surface level, it’s a wonderful opportunity to slow down and come back to your own center.

If you are curious, I’d be happy to talk to you about this practice. If you wanna join, let me know. If you don’t wanna join this group, but you’d like to practice with me individually in-person or online, reach out for that. 🩷

12/01/2025

Dance Movement Psychotherapy helps clients become more whole. A mark of health is being able to shift between different emotional states with relative ease.

Humans can get stuck in emotions…. stuck in a bad mood no matter what, stuck being so serious that affection or playfulness feel impossible, getting paralyzed in fear even though everything around is safe. Dance Movement Therapy changes that.

It’s not just talking about ideas about feeling (how heady). It’s actually experiencing those feeling states and the ability to shift them.

Dance Movement Therapy supports clients to build new parts of themselves that didn’t exist before, from the inside out through movement and embodiment.

Plus, this way of working is fun! It’s stress relief and mindfulness practice. You don’t need any experience. Dance Movement Therapy sometimes looks like dance. Lots of times it just looks like some body awareness- breathing, body scanning…. some soft but powerful entry points into the body.

Unless you are a somatic practitioner of some sort, chances are you’re pretty disconnected from your body – given our societal norms. It’s impossible to be really healthy and fulfilled when we’re disconnected from our bodies. This is because our bodies are the guidance systems we were given to understand and fulfill our needs.

Dance Movement Therapy helps us understand and use our inherent guidance systems (our bodies) to their full potential.

We don’t need ChatGPT to tell us to drink water. We don’t need research studies to let us know that dance is better than antidepressants for treating depression. Our bodies can tell us these very basic things, once we listen to them.

Hope you’ll join us in the spaces where we get to explore being fully ourselves- human, messy, and alive!

11/26/2025

You might think it’s ugly and shameful to give space to…

-Talking about the nightmares you lived…

- Letting the tears or scars be seen…

- Naming the suicidality, disordered eating, depression, abuse…

… I feel grateful it’s getting expression. I’m not glad there’s pain, but what a triumph when it gets some space to be named and held and moved and shifted, when it gets acceptance and maybe even compassion.

I think none of us get out of this life without some big and overwhelming pain. There’s so much bravery in being honest about that. I don’t think less of you for your darkness; I’m not afraid of it. I’m in awe of it. I’m in awe of the healing journey we get to share.

11/23/2025

Your darkness holds your light. And when they both have space to be- ahhh-the wonder!

11/18/2025

From my recent ketamine psychotherapy session.

I’ll be collaborating with holistic psychiatric nurse practitoner . She’ll prescribe the medicine to my clients, and she also leads ketamine therapy in her own practice. So, we got the ball rolling. Sylvia led my journey and was an excellent guide.

In my journey, I focused on getting support in my transition to a home office. Lots of perfectionism, urgency, and fear getting stirred up by this huge and exciting change.

Ketamine journeys inspire me to express through drawing and give me messages in words. This time, this message came:

Nothing is perfect. Everything is whole.

I believe that; even the broken things have an inherent wholeness.

I was going to make the center of the image like a white or yellow light- but it unexpectedly felt good and right to make it really dark.

The message in the card I pulled was about trusting the unknown, the feminine darkness. I love the darkness, the unknown, the mystery more and more as the years pass. You can remind me of that when I’m obsessing about having control over something trivial. 😉

I don’t believe ketamine therapy has helped me understand anything I didn’t already know, but it has definitely made important healing insights much more clear and integrated.

I’m glad to offer this therapy to my clients. In addition to being impactful and supported by research, it’s also cozy, intimate, and uplifting. I think we could all use some more if that.

11/14/2025

It’s been a good back road to here. Now, I feel giddy when my clients say they love how our sessions draw from so many different modalities and can really be catered to them and what they need that day. Art therapy for fuller expression and integration, yoga for stress relief, somatic therapy for inner child healing, dance therapy for emotional and mental shift, guided yoga nidra to build self-awareness, or maybe just talking. Sure… let’s create it and know that psychotherapy is deep and demanding… and can also be joyful, restful, creative, and empowering. 😆☺️

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Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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